Madam Kedibone Mogotsi Telephone 016 450 3091 Cellphone 083 629 3693 Fax 016 422 2456 Email kedibonem@sedibeng.gov.za

Kedibone Angeline Mogotsi was born in Boshoff in the Free State and pursued her secondary studies in Kimberley in the Northern Cape.  She later completed her Grade 12 at Damelin College. She has studied management and leadership at various institutions in the country and abroad.  Kedibone extensively studied local government and completed executive and management leadership courses in local government.  Most notably she has achieved a certificate in local government finance management. She had 31 years of unbroken service as a women organiser, unionist, and civic activist, participated in underground political activities. Kedibone Mogotsi spent most of her political life in the Vaal.  One of the highlights of her political life when she was one of the organisers of the rent boycott of 1984 and later elected by the people of the Vaal to be part of the Committee of Ten in the Vaal.

Kedibone has been part of the negotiations of local government and served in the pre-interim and interim structures of local government in the Vaal.  She also co-chaired the Section 14(5) Committee that was established to negotiate the final structures of local government in the region.  She is also one of the first democratically elected councillors and served as the first Chief Whip.  She served in various leadership positions of the erstwhile Lekoa Vaal Metropolitan Council.  She was a member of the Mayoral Committee of Sedibeng District Municipality and later deployed to the Emfuleni Local Council as Speaker in 2006.  In 2007, she was redeployed as Speaker of the Sedibeng District Council and is serving in this position to date.  She also is the current chairperson of the SALGA Gauteng Working Group on Social Development and serves on the SALGA Provincial Executive Committee (PEC).